Refuses to network anything

I always like to tell my BSG story.

Watch mini series, it's good
Don't get into the rest, forget about it
Come home one day to flat mate watching it on DVD, just as the Galactica jumps into the atmosphere on New Caprica and jumps out again.
Me: "I need to watch this from the start"
Flat mate ejects the disc right then and there and inserts the first disc of the first season.
We watch it every night until the end

Best TV ever made.

The overall story really flailed around as the later seasons went on (IIRC during a writers' strike is when there was a lot of issues), but '33'- the first episode of the first season is so fantastic I still remember it distinctly.

The style, tone, and acting of BSG really kept the show intriguing even if the plot went in circles sometimes.
- There was a writer's strike in the middle of the final season which seems to have sent the show off the rails.
Then you discover the board game and it's a whole new level of great
- Board game you say?
You have a great flat mate there too
I'm getting my men.
I'm a little sad that the first re-exposure was pretty much the pinnacle badass moment of the series. It's a great show, but that might have still set the expectations a bit high.
- That scene was the singular best piece of television in history.
  
  May be with the Galactica jumping into and ramming the Cylon colony later on a close second.
  
  I can weather the weaker parts of a story for the stong parts to shine beside. It's all good.

I love how the ONE time they did, all the fears were validated.

Gaeta (sp?) did a damn good job all things considered
- Athena was the one who did all the work. What did Gaeta do? Plug some patch cables in?
- Well, for a while at least.
The network with its fake daemons and firewalls lasted how long? A minute or so?
i was gonna say! LOVED that part.

BTW I love how this show continues to hold its own today. I started rewatching it a couple weeks ago, and my wife stopped behind the couch one day and now I am not allowed to watch a second of it unless she’s there to enjoy it too.

It's a blessing and a curse. It's great to be able to share stuff but also, what do you mean you're too tired to watch it's the last episode of the season come on
- I usually pump the brakes with series. She likes to binge, I prefer to watch a couple at a time and let the story sink in before proceeding another day.
What show is this from?
- Oh you’re in for a ride! Battlestar Galactica. Not the one from the seventies, the one from the aughts. This series broke my mind on what a sci-fi series could be and do. Start with the movie/miniseries, continue with the full on series.
  
  The 2 x 1.5 h miniseries is from 2003. The series from 2004.
- Battlestar Galactica
We just watched it last year and I can’t believe I missed it the first go round. We were blown away.
It's just a pity on a great show to have such a bad ending.
- Wasn't that bad IMO.
- It's way less bad on rewatch. Like we had it good back then for what we considered a bad ending lol
- Each to their own.
  
  I loved the ending, but that doesn't mean you have to.
I haven't watched the show before, but it's been my Sunday ritual for a little while now. I watch while ironing my shirts, it's really good ! Character writing is 10/10.

So say we all!

Keep those frackin' toasters outta here!

Keep those frackin’ IOT toasters outta here!
- IOT
  
  Internet of Toasters
toasters

Problematic language.
- Clankers?
Speaking of fracking toasters, reminder that there was a valid fan theory that Cylonism was a STD for most of the series.

So say we all!

So say we all!
- SO SAY WE ALL

i am out of the loop here once again.

In Battlestar Galactica (2004) robots called Cylons attack the humans by hacking their computer network. They are able to destroy most of humanity and all but a handful of human ships. One of the ships that survives is the Battlestar Galactica, an old ship that was about to become a museum, and is too old to be connected to the network. The man in the picture is Admiral William Adama, captain of the Galactica. He orders that computers are not to be networked together, so they can't be hacked by the Cylons.

In real life cyber security provider CrowdStrike had a bug in one of its update files. The file went out as part of an automated update to computers at many businesses around the world, including banks and airlines. The bug made the computers crash, grounding flights, making payment systems inoperable, etc.
- Just to clarify a point of the show, it isn't too old to be networked. They had that ability then. They had just previously fought a war with the Cylons, in which the Galactica was built for and fought in, so not networking was standard protocall then. The military decided, after a long peace, they should have networked ships, assuming the Cylon threat was gone. This cause nearly all modern military vessels to be open to exploit, except the Galactica and few remaining older vessels.
- Oh yeah, people were saying Picard season 3 ripped off the idea.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/19/admin_crowdstrike_update_mess/
- Thanks for this article describing the actual computer system update crisis ... but still, i do not know what this photograph of some guy means in your post ...
  Edit : never mind someone else explained it to me here